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    1. Brian-Kellett on

      As it always has been due to (a) people being undereducated and (b) a lack of access to other, more appropriate services like GPs.

      This is not news as it’s been a constant thing since I first started nursing in A&E 30 years ago.

    2. hebrewimpeccable on

      Spent all night in there tonight with a blocked stoma. Thankfully it sorted itself out once I saw the on-call surgeon, but that’s 9 hours with a pretty severe gastric blockage. The amount of people in there with coughs, grazes, and other incredibly minor things is astounding

    3. InsecureInscapist on

      And then there is me who kind of probably broke my toe a month ago and decided not to go.

      I honestly can’t fathom how a person reaches adulthood in this country and thinks going to A&E with a sore throat is reasonable.

    4. limaconnect77 on

      Will happen if practice’s SOP is fobbing people off with the tried and tested ‘unfortunately the earliest one of our GPs can see you is next week…if it becomes worse, please go A&E’.

      They well know people aren’t gonna wait a fkn fortnight, with a crook wrist or knee, to see a GP for meds when those (with adequate advice) can be sought through Accident and Emergency.

      So…it cuts down on the number of appointments those doctors have to deal with.

    5. Klumber on

      2% of visits. Let’s not pretend that this is the reason A&Es don’t function. Struggles with capacity signal a problem in the process and our primary care system is on its knees. I can’t attend a minor injury unit or GP emergency appointment without waiting on the phone for hours and then be told I have an appointment tomorrow (or Monday if it happens to be weekend).

      Not only that, the way our services are designed and named make knowing right place, right time, right person extremely difficult. The NHS is very bad at consistent naming conventions and wayfinding.

    6. phild1979 on

      Most areas would benefit from a walkin centre for less severe things. I remember when my mum was taken to A&E from her care home a few years ago. She was waiting on a trolly to be seen while in front of her was a guy in his early 20s with a cut to his head. He did it playing football but decided to go out drinking for several hours first before coming to A&E. There was another girl in her pyjamas a similar scenario but the injury was from the night before. Both walkins with no severe symptoms so could have just been patched up by any medic. In some areas you’ll also hardly here English spoken as they use that instead of a doctor’s.

    7. raven43122 on

      Lucky down my way they have 3 urgent care centre’s

      They can deal with everything up to broken bones and stitches.

      Had my hand stitched after a run in with some barb wire about a year back one person in front of me. 

      Now AE? Took my elderly mother after a fall 2 weeks back took 10 hours to find the issue.

      People checking in with urine infections, “cold feet” 

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